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Does anyone feel like the terms "mansplain" and "whitesplain" can be overused to stifle discussion?
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In online leftist forums it seems to me that there is an issue with taking completely legitimate phenomena like those I mentioned in the title and overusing them as a way to dodge criticism. I think that when a man attempts to dictate a woman's experience that is clearly mansplaining. But I've seen people who just disagreed on reasonable things being told that they are mansplaining or whitesplaining. It seems that this is not only unhelpful to discussion but also fairly infantalizing to operate as if women or POC are so fragile that they are incapable of being criticized for anything. Of course not everyone does this, but I've noticed an increase in this lately and I was curious if anyone here has seen this as an issue and also how people feel about the current state of Identity politics on the left in general.

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